Yugi, Yami Yugi and others in “Unfinished Business”

[thinking] Joey's doing awesome against Kaiba! He's become one of the greatest duelists around! He could have won this whole tournament if it wasn't for Marik's shadow game. [Flashback to Joey's last duel with Marik as he passed out due to his energy being drained] All he had to do was yell "attack!" And Joey would have won the duel.

Mmm. But in his heart, Joey knows that he's a great duelist, worthy of the Battle City crown.

Mokuba

Joey's dueling pretty well against Seto. But he'll have to better than that to beat him.

Hmm. Well, congratulations on making one good move. There is a first time for everything.

Joey

Watch it, pal!

I'm not your "pal", Wheeler. If I were, I'd be standing over there with the other geeks, cheering my pathetic heart out for the obvious loser of the duel! Did you forget that I destroyed every powerful monster in your deck?

Joey

[thinking] He's right! Thanks to his Crush Card, the only monsters I got left have less than 1,500 attack points! But I gotta keep fighting! If I let Kaiba get the best of me, he'll never let me live it down! And I gotta put that punk in his place!

You can do this, Joey!

Joey

Thanks, Yuge. I needed that.

Ha! You don't have a clue, do you? Now, let's duel!